The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is proud to introduce its Fall 2024 Film Series at the Latin American Cultural Center (LACC) in Oakland.

The LACC Film Series will take place on four Sundays between September and December 2024, including four short films (three documentaries and one fiction), and four feature films, produced or co-produced in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Mexico. All films will be shown in their original language (including Spanish, Portuguese, Náhuatl or Wichí Lhämtès) with English subtitles.

Join us in this must-see series, as we explore issues related to Latin American stories, art, culture, environmental concerns, social struggles and points of view.

Film Series I

Short + Fiction

Showtime: 6:00 PM
Total screening time: 113 minutes 

Su voz está dentro / Her Voice is Within

Directed by Mariana Flores Villalba
Mexico, 2022, 20 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

Short documentary

This film documents how, after a social media casting call, a group of women survivors of domestic abuse shared their stories through WhatsApp voice messages in an act of trust and collective healing.

Dos Fridas / Two Fridas

Directed by Ishtar Yasin Gutérrez
Costa Rica/Mexico, 2018, 93 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

Feature, Fiction

This story is inspired by real life events. Judith Ferreto spends the final days in her house in Costa Rica. Death’s approach evokes memories, living pictures of moments of complicity in Frida Kahlo’s company, when Judith was the Mexican painter’s personal nurse. The film brings together popular art, votive offerings, images of death, surrealism and the artists and intellectuals of Post-revolutionary Mexico through magical realism.